Combined flounce and belt



(No Model.)

A. NEUVILLE. COMBINED FLOUNGE AND BELT.

Patented Feb. 23, 1892 #11 0222); 1V0: 1/1] [c gwwwfm UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPI-I NEUVILLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINED FL OUNCE AND BELT.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,637, dated February 28, 1892.

Application filed October I6, 1891. Serial No. 408,853. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH NEUVILLE, of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Flounce and Belt, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined flounce and belt; and it consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the application of my invention to the body of the wearer. Fig. 2 is a front view, partly broken; and Fig. 3 is a section through the belt and flounce.

Myinvention is a combined flounce and belt adapted to be readily applied to and detached from the body of the wearer without disturbing any other garment, and to be worn with different dresses.

1 indicates the flounce, or rather demiflounce, which is open throughout its entire length in front and composed of lace or other open-Work fabric, and which has a length approximating one-third of that of the dressskirt and is provided with an ornamental lower end.

Secured to the upper edge of the flounce 1 is a belt 3, open also in front and provided with suitable fastening devices, such as hooks and eyes, or, as shown in Fig. 2, with a button 5 and button-hole (3. The belt 3 is provided with elastic gores 8, located opposite each other, which permit said belt to stretch and adapt itself to the movements of the wearer.

As the demi-tlounce is made of open-work fabric, such as lace it will be readily perceived that the color of the underlying garment will be disclosed through its openings, making a very pretty effect.

What I claim is A new and improved ornamental article of dress for ladies wear, consisting of a belt provided with opposite elastic gores and adapted to be applied to and removed from the waist ofthewearerindependentlyofothergarments, means for fastening the belt at the front, and a short flounce of open-work fabric attached to the belt, so as to hang over and encircle the hips of the wearer and being open in front from top to bottom, such open-work fabric being adapted to disclose the color of the underlying garment through its openings, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPII NEUVILLE.

Witnesses:

ED. E. LONGAN, BENJ. J. KLENE. 

